Moving away from Western / Eurocentric perspectives and focusing on Afrocentric death perspectives. My PhD research aims to draw to the mainstream; foster  understanding of Afrocentric perspectives on death, funerary rituals, and practices; their role within multi-cultural structures in shaping social cultural attitudes; policy, and regulations within the dominant discourse in the UK. I argue that Western narratives and models of theorising death matters have pigeonholed Afrocentric deaths, grief, bereavement  and losses in the UK. The gap in academic literature  has perpetuated power, authority, and marginalization by creating homogenized attitudes towards migrant communities  in death matters in the UK.

George’s most recent blog piece can be found here.